took the molding off the side. and most the tape under it. revealing my silver car used to be black. going to take off the glue tomorrow while it gets an oil change. then repaint it silver.

 

Installed new wiper rack linkage. Broke a bolt removing the front seat so while trying to remove the broken piece the rust around the mount broke, so I chopped it out. Sadly I have no welder, so I have no idea how it's going to get repaired at this point.

 

Lots and lots of pop rivets?

 

Nice! I've been thinking about redoing my spare waffles in this exact same way.

 

Finished up the final silkscreen retouch on the air cleaner, faked up an "until I can find one that fits" insulating boot for the alternator output connection, properly cemented the new carpet inserts into my bin lids, reinforced the bin hinges, and pulled the driver's door card to fix the snapped stud on the back of one of my fancy door emblems.

The door emblem fix went poorly at first. The chrome rotor emblems I bought to make them are made from something in the line of very soft aluminum (under copper then chrome electroplate) or possibly tin/pot metal. Attempts to re-solder the brass stud I previously added to make it mountable just failed - - the solder flux was actually eating the metal away, but without flux it wouldn't wet at all. Then solder started wicking under the chrome. Yuck. Clear that he other studs would eventually break off as well; a b etter solution was needed.

So, I decided to bow to the practical and instead use thru-holes to mount the emblems, using stainless BHCS hex screws placed where the corner seals would go. Looks righteous, & no way they can fail in future. I need to get some slightly longer screws today, though, before I can re-mount them properly.

Dug my spare air-cleaner snorkel out of the box I had it in, and started cleaning it up for mounting to the newly-redone air filter box.

 

did some maintenance yesterday, new plugs, wires, dizzy cap and rotor.

weird thing was, i installed all the new parts at once then fired up the car, it ran very weird and hesitated. after a lot of head scratching, reinstalled all the old parts and it ran perfectly fine.

started reinstalling the new parts one by one and once i was done, it was running good.

 

Started the tear down of 12A number two. Got the exhaust manifold, intake manifold, oil pan, oil pump, pickup tube off. Might start pulling the motor apart tonight, but I have an early flight tomorrow, so I may just wait until the weekend when I come back.

fm

 

Oh THAT seal - the tail light trim stuff. I have generally just removed it on previous cars.

 

So while the 4" Alpines will bolt directly onto the original mounting holes with the original screws there is about 1/8" gap all around which hardly helps to make for good bass responce. So I made four of these little plates while watching TV during the commercials. (Two for each car.)

Photos captions are: The original speaker. The Alpine and filler plate. The Alpine and filler plated mounted. The last picture sort of shows the rats nest left over when the PO removed the alarm system. I get motivated to remove this and then I think of how much time I might spend figuring out how to fix what they cut to disable the car. For some reason it looks worse in real life than in this photo.

 

This might be a good enough reason to get a welder. Think of it as an opportunity. Alternatively I like to work with wood and fiberglass more than with metal so my solution would be to clean up the area and repair it with fiberglass and structural epoxy. You could capture a nut in the correct position such that the original seat mount will fit.

This isn't an area I was aware of that had rusting issues. Could you post a couple of pictures please.

 

Drove 70 miles in hard rain, and the new weatherstrip not only keeps the rain out, it makes for a quiet ride.

 

washed it, picked a new cd deck but now I'm not sure if I want to remove the oem radio

 

That's what my thinking was. I've wanted one for a while, even went to look at a 110V Lincoln that was on sale but didn't bite the bullet. Now I don't really have a choice. Just waiting on the ole tax return now.

I'll try to remember to take a couple tomorrow evening.

 

Got the alternator boot & installed it; finished the door emblem refit & replaced my cracked OEM door-handle garnish with one of the ones I made last year - - can't even tell it's not original.

Next up, snorkel cleanup.

 

DLIDFIS is fully wired. Looks kinda OEM, actually. How'd I manage that? Tested spark = ok. No carb yet so can't test fire.

Ordered an intake manifold today.

The fan is wired. I didn't want the after-run that some people do so I wired it to turn off with the key. Of course fused and relayed.

Tomorrow will be for tidying up some wires.

 

Removed choke and choke cable to clean up the bay a bit.

 

i opened the hood!

 

I'm 2000 miles away from my FB, so today I just thought about her. Monday night I got the rear iron off the 12A and inspected the rear rotor housing. Junk. I'm not surprised...the rear rotor showed absolutely no compression at all when I did the test. I'm not much more optimistic about the front housing either. Off to A&S Metals. Oh well, at least I'll be cleaning out the garage this weekend so I can do some real work on the car.

fm

 

Me too! I only used some compressed air to blow off some metal debris from installing a dual coil holder the other day.

But I did get to pull an engine from an FC today. No wonder I never got into FCs. I got to miss all the anoying BS in those engine bays. You can't even see the engine under all the manifolding! I'll take a 1st gen any day.

 

Not today but last weekend: Wash and wax to knock off the winter dust and grime.

 

Put in a little time cleaning up my spare air-inlet horn. Needs some elbow grease.

 

Quite a beauty. Mine may never look so well groomed, but I'd still not trade!

 

Got a new windshield installed!

Now I can see clearly!



Holy **** there's a road in front of me! who knew!?

 

You are living the dream!

 

Put on racing beat springs and tokico blue shocks